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Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father's house, why did you steal my gods?"

Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.'"

The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.

Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want." So he urged him, and he took it.

just as the sons of Jacob came in from the field. When they heard of it, the men were indignant and very angry, because he had committed an outrage in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his family.

And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled.

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves.

His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Are you indeed to have dominion over us?" So they hated him even more because of his dreams and his words.

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"

The chief jailer paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.

The plenty will no longer be known in the land because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very grievous.

Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.

Now the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, "It is because of the money, replaced in our sacks the first time, that we have been brought in, so that he may have an opportunity to fall upon us, to make slaves of us and take our donkeys."

With that, Joseph hurried out, because he was overcome with affection for his brother, and he was about to weep. So he went into a private room and wept there.